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Thursday, July 07, 2005

Europe says no to software patents

On July 6, the European parliament decidedby a large majority to reject the software patents directive. This is great news for the FOSS community and open software innovation in general. The patent directive was a looming threat forsoftware innovation in Europe, since it threatened to bringinto legislation, the US style practice of supporting patentsin software and business processes.